Cogent Healthcare Inc., a venture-backed company that provides doctors for hospitals, is moving its headquarters from Irvine to Nashville.
The move should be done by October, said Gene Fleming, Cogent’s chief executive.
Cogent is moving to be closer to hospitals in the South and East and to try and lure new customers.
Fleming also lives in Nashville.
When Fleming became Cogent’s chief executive two years ago, “One of my requirements was that I remain in Nashville,” he told the Tennessean newspaper.
Before becoming Cogent’s head, Fleming ran Surgical Alliance Corp., a Nashville developer of outpatient surgery centers and surgical hospitals.
Cogent had been based in Laguna Hills and later Irvine since its start in 1993. Its top executives have lived across the country.
The company is privately held and doesn’t disclose financial information. Fleming said revenue has risen about 35% a year on average since 2003.
For more on this story, see the April 16 issue of the Business Journal.
